Artificial bait



Feb. 6, 1923.

1,444,394. G. C. ROI'IRBACH.

' ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

FILED APR. I5, 1922- lietented Pole. (5, i923.

GEORGE C. ROHBBACH, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

Application filed April 15, 1922. Serial No. 553,055.

To all wlumi, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. Ronnnnorr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading. in, the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial Bait, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in artificial bait and it is intended primarily as a bait for use in casting, or, for what is usually termed a floating bait.

The object in the present'inrention is to provide a bait in the form of afly or insect, A provided with wings, and to overcome the is used objection of perishable winged insects. An additional advantage of this form oil To this end, I provide a fly with a pair wing, is that the cost is materially reduced, of wings consisting entirely of a pair of and emotive feature is the fact that there is loops formed bybending a piece of catgut to no ing to warp or destroy the proper efthe contour of approximately the outline of feet. l a pair of wings, depending on the illusion It is evident that two or more pairs of produced, when the fly is sighted, of a transwings, of d cut size, may be applied to parent wing. insect, ii desired, and that the bodies The invention is more "fully described in n insects may be varied at will, for the the following specification and clearly illusentire inv ntion. in the present instance lies tinted in the accornpenyin,gdrawing, in in the tori'rnitionotthe wings by merely loopwhich in a pliable body to term the outlines of the Figure 1 is a side view of a fly, illustrating wings, depending on the effect produced to my invention, while Figure 2 shows the forcarry with it that of a, transparent wing; mation of the wings by bending together a Having thus described my invention, I piece of cetgut.

The numeral 1 designates the body and 2 claim 1. Artificial bait comprising; a body prothe head of an insect, and these may be of i any suitable material.

vided with a plurality of catgut loops secured thereto and projecting at angle To provide the insect with attractive uheret'rom to repres nt wings. wings, wings that will appear to be trans its a net. 2i clc of maru ecture, e parent, I form a double loop 33 by bendpiece of cetgut bent to term it pair oil: wings, ing a piece of catgut upon itself, tying; the tied together where the wi ncet end havends together to form a knot 4c, and permiting its extremities extending beyond the tyting the ends of the catgut to extend slightly beyond the knot, as shown at 5.

ion; point.

This looped member may be fastened to the body oi the insect in any suitable and easy manner, as by a drop of sealing wax or other easy method, in such manner hat the loops project from either side, like the wings of an insect, while the ends 5 project over the heed of the insect, as shown in Figure 1, completing the outline oi the insect.

The pair of loop. 3, will, either when in the water or in the air, produce the illusion oi? e pair oi? transparent wings, and l: have tound by actuel experience that the deception greater than is the re ultwhen n transrerent wing or semi-trzinsparent wing);

In testimony whereof a 11:; my signature.

GEORGE C. ROHRB ACi-l. 

